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Contest prep 2010!

After 2 weeks off training and diet its time to get down to buisness. I am 14 weeks out from my contest and will be gradually getting back into training this week with a slightly lower intensity level since I've been off for 2 weeks.

Do you prefer to diet on a higher carb low fat plan? Do you find it works just aswell or you don't like the high fat approach?
Being one of Scott Abels guys do you do cheat days during prep.?

How is your 6 day plan set up? Isn't 6 days striaght training with extra cardio and circuits abit much ? LOL

Myself I prefer a carb based diet. Its all individual and can be tweaked from prep to prep depending on the person. No one should do a straight high fat approach as glycogen is extremely important and carb days should be put in appropriately. I did a high fat approach during the first part of this past off season with one carb day mid week and it was fine then I switched back to high carbs. I have found over the years that my body will respond to whatever diet I use. This is not typical of your avaerage person though.

I only have spike days if my body is downregulating and they are needed. 2 years ago I had 4 spike days during a 12 week prep and last year I only had 1 spike day at 4 weeks out during an 11 week prep.

I'm doing a bodypart split over 6 days. For me its not too much because I've have a high workload capacity after years of proper progression. I'm 33 and have been training since I was 17. For the average trainee doing the complexes and circuits I'm doing would be too much especially during contest prep. I will tweak things as I go depending on how my recovery is as my body becomes depleted over the course of my prep. I am not doing any steady state cardio at this point.

I think this is possibly the all-time best response on WBB. - Jorge Sanchez

"you're an animal eat like one damn it!" - Wikked1

"Now we're finally getting to the chicken or the egg question," I grinned. "Did I eat all that food because my size gives me more of an appetite, or did I get to be this big because I've been forcing myself to eat like this for years?"

From A Body Builder is Born

i knew you were a beast but not that kinda of a beast that eats grown men and children.. lilmase

I think this is possibly the all-time best response on WBB. - Jorge Sanchez

"you're an animal eat like one damn it!" - Wikked1

"Now we're finally getting to the chicken or the egg question," I grinned. "Did I eat all that food because my size gives me more of an appetite, or did I get to be this big because I've been forcing myself to eat like this for years?"

From A Body Builder is Born

i knew you were a beast but not that kinda of a beast that eats grown men and children.. lilmase

I think this is possibly the all-time best response on WBB. - Jorge Sanchez

"you're an animal eat like one damn it!" - Wikked1

"Now we're finally getting to the chicken or the egg question," I grinned. "Did I eat all that food because my size gives me more of an appetite, or did I get to be this big because I've been forcing myself to eat like this for years?"

From A Body Builder is Born

i knew you were a beast but not that kinda of a beast that eats grown men and children.. lilmase